Following is my account of getting the Fall Creators Update installed.
I was logged in as a regular user. Clicked through Settings > Update and security > Windows update and saw two updates listed – “Features Update to Windows 10 version 1709” and one related to Adobe Flash Player. My suspicion that the “features” update was the Fall Creators Update was later verified. I initiated the update process only to have it end reporting that “some updates couldn’t be installed”. Care to guess what update didn’t install? Yep, it was the Fall Creators Update.
To make a long story short I ended up having to download Microsoft’s Upgrade Assistant tool to be able to do the update. At that point the update went well. Took 2 hours from start to finish and included 3 restarts. Drilling through Settings > System > About you will see 1709 as the version and 16299.15 as OS build if the update was successful.
Curious thing is that my update history is now blank. Even more interesting is that the previously mentioned SMBv1 component is still very much present and I can still see and talk to my networked XP box. Hmmm.
It is the most basic and hard fast rule that for security you should not be using an admin account as your day-to-day log in. But by not being logged in as an admin this update didn’t work for me. I would be very interested in hearing how your update went.
